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First I thought my browser was broken, I am still not sure if it is or if it renders as intended. It is also too wide for my 1024px screen.

The feed's popups are too high for a 600px screen. And since it is javascript, you cannot scroll up and down the whole window frame. You cannot open items in tabs using ctrl, javascript will capture the mouseclick, you have to rightclick and choose from the menu. Did I mention how much I love javascript and its improvements to user experience?
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>This must have come out of the ITA Software acquisition

One of the authors, the one that goes by the name Faré, definitely came with the ITA acquisition.
I've heard this view before. It's what I have been saying for some time now: With vastly increased wealth for the richest due to technological leverage, what will need to be done is increased taxation, especially for the richest. The taxes can be used to pay for a "dividend" system, which could for instance be implemented through negative taxation up to a certain low income. We might not be there today, but it is where we'll end up if automation keeps spreading at the rate it has until now.

Norway almost de facto has a system like this already (through an incredibly generous welfare system), but the only reason we are able to pay for it is through the huge petroleum income.
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Is this supposed to work on Android devices? It doesn't seem to do anything on my N7.
Link is dead, was hoping it would explain why this would be useful to anyone on planet earth?
That was the first thing I noticed. Even their logo is so badly compressed it hurts my eyes.
And for example this part - http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/announcements/new/logo/te... - gives the impression that the front-end guy was trying to implement the design very fast.
I liked the scrolling effect on the "promo" page though, quite creative.
On the contrary, it would be impressive if Google managed to make them port half (or more of) their codebase from Lisp to Java and still keep the ITA employees, some of whom are hardcore lispers.
Obligatory Pinterest Layout Will Not Save You link: http://jfornear.co/the-pinterest-layout-will-not-save-you/
I'm assuming I don't really have an eye for design, but could you explain what's wrong with this infographic? Seems fine to me?
It's no longer a bay, I guess.
Talk economics to me, baby.

As an economics PhD drop-out who left [after year #2] to start my own consulting company based on my PhD research, I can relate with so much of what I've heard so far (I'm only at 22mins at this point).

Also, as a person who went from the economics/business (albeit, academic) life -> developer life, I agree with your observations about how programmers suck at economics (err... business). It is a much easier transition (relatively speaking) to go from an econ/business person --> compsci/developer than it is compsci/developer --> econ/business person. You can't learn economics overnight, but I can certainly figure out how to create a tool that solves a specific problem overnight, because some guy wrote a tutorial about how to use <some technology> to solve <a congruent problem>.

I'll try and update my post later after I've finished the podcast.
I think there's a lot of truth in this attitude, I sometimes think 'if someone can take our code without all our knowledge and do something useful with it better than we can, then they deserve to win', having said that, I also strongly suggest that it would be bad for GitHubs business for it to be widely known that they have this attitude...
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Would it not be great that we change the branch prediction implementation to switch on/off automatically(with every new process)?
This would be difficult to trace or even implement but I'm just guessing.
The CPU stops using branch prediction if a lot of it's predictions are failing but starts again after some time.
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Considering that paper books don't have buttons for turning the pages, I find the complaint about the lack of a button for page turning amusing. I suspect it is still less effort to flip a page on the kindle than on a paper book.

Not that such a button would necessarily be a bad idea (not sure). I suppose it would have to be quite sturdy, as it would be used a lot. Perhaps on the touch screen the clicks are distributed more and so it will last longer.
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Very interesting if this catches on. It would be really cool if someone like Linode hosts a Pi for you as a Real Private Server (TM). You have a nice Linux box which you can ssh into. Combined with a free CDN like Cloudflare, you can host mostly-static websites which will scale very nicely, on something the size of a deck of cards.
Honestly I think the biggest nuclear threat comes from:

* US
* Russia
* France
* China

I don't see why one country in the posession of nuclear weapons is less a threat than any other.

Someone please explain that to me.

Especially since I know of only one (1) country that actually used nuclear weapons in war....
Indeed, municipal bonds are much riskier than good ol' Treasuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/business/municipal-bonds-d...
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I was really disappointed after reading the article. It was far too short, and contained no useful information. Actually, what is the point of such articles anyhow?
On what criteria should I evaluate domain registrars?
It's boring and doesn't really make any sense. What is that pictograph for sellers meant to mean? Why is there 1 picture of a person for ~3 million active users? The layout is also oddly inconsistent. It goes from having "NNN" and "MILLION" equal width on 3 of them to only getting up to half way through the O in MILLION in the other 2. I suspect that's because one of the pictographs didn't look right squashed into the available space so they expanded it into the number area, but then they had to make the one above it match so that things looked balanced still. Why is the number of mobile registrations in 2012 not an Arabic digit like everything else?

It's not really an infographic, it's just some somewhat suspectly typeset data and some icons.
>>How have they been...

Yes they make a mistake. That mistake is to bet on an unethical business man. The point is not that, the point is the CEO set different conditions for him and different for others.

While the senior execs were allowed to cash out, guys down the ladder weren't.
No kernel updates?
Just tried this on my iPhone 3Gs, not working
No, Steve's rant was also about how Google is very much on the "Conservative" end of the political spectrum. When a conservative company uses an - as per steve's article - liberal language, you can't expect them to use it in a liberal way. The story checks out.
I'm flooded with emotions. Where on earth did you come up with the name? I'm... a fan.

Also, the idea is very cool. There was a gif site posted here or reddit the other day that consumed far too much of my time. Similar to this, but this has to be fun to do while tilting the ipad. (Android version?)
If someone could reliably define that you need so much of X, Y, Z factors to be the next Facebook, Google, Dropbox, or even Instagram, they would build a factory to build companies that print money.

Pretty much YC in a nutshell.
I've used vi/vim for ~20 years (I have memories of using it in '92 when I had an Amiga B2000) and I've never installed a single extension/package/what-not.

The corporate development environment I'm in means it's a huge amount of work to get anything installed on a wide range of platforms (6 different OSes not including Windows) and on a large number of machines. For various security reasons, my home directory is not shared amongst all of the machines, which could have made it easier.

However, the main reason is that I often go to customers to solve problems and I have to use what they have installed. I can't go asking someone to install vim and a bunch of extensions on their production servers just to make me feel comfy; I have to rely on the lowest common denominator set of basic tools that are usually installed; vi (even ed), sed, awk, sh (can't even rely on bash being installed).

Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against people using vim with a whole bunch of extensions, it's just not for me.

But not being proficient in the basics can be a bad thing, especially when it's usually a tricky/pressured situation where you're left without your favourite dev environment.
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I'm running a €2/month KVM VPS in UK with them, had to commit to a minimum of 1 year. The box has rebooted twice in the five months I've had it, whether due to OOM (only 128M RAM) or Edis, I don't know. No other hiccups.

Otherwise, I got all that was promised, 1 IPv4, IPv6 /112, it seems to be a 2533MHz 5066 bogomips amd64 thingy, but no idea how many others are sharing. I'm running Debian on it, basically just providing OpenVPN for my computers/devices.

Their management UI is quite barren and happily mixes German and English, so I'm not quite sure of all its features...

If your budget allows 7.9 euros, http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq7 is probably a nigh bit more reliable (according to a colleague, who has exactly that).

I also had a Linode's 512M, comparing the two Linode wins on reliability and management features. But at 14 GBP (what, ~22 dollars?) you can get a dedicated server from http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/
Design is completely fine as well as the content. Putting it as a one big image straight into website, less so.
> I have something that due to the niche of the product, makes it very hard to sell to anywhere BUT eBay...It is truly the network effect at work.

I get the impression you assume the network effect is something that just happens over night. The network effect is extremely hard to master and takes a lot of money/time to do so. Hence why the fees are as high as they are.

> So I hope this blows up in their face and that they continue to lose market and mindshare.

Care to elaborate? I wasn't under the impression ebay was doing either.[1]

[1] - http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EBAY+Interactive#symbol=E...
> You also have little recourse if a buyer rates you poorly (I guess punish him back by rating him badly too?)

Hilariously, sellers can't leave negative feedback for buyers: http://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/sellerprotection.html

If you're selling on eBay and something goes wrong (buyer claims she received a box of rocks), there really isn't much to do. PayPal and eBay favor buyers so much that if the buyer really wants her money back, she'll certainly get it.
> I had to buy out my options and it came with a large tax bill for some reason

This usually happens if your option has a strike price lower than the market price at the time they're issued, in which case depending on jurisdiction they difference will usually be taxed as income on exercise. If you're really unlucky about where you are and how the options are arranged, you might even get taxed based on the market price on exercise. E.g. Norway at least used to be that way a while back unless you took specific precautions to get the options issued under an approved scheme.

It's something to be aware of, as it means a lot of people might not be able to afford to exercise the options before they're ready to sell the shares, which means your total gains gets taxed as income most places (as opposed to if you see the company on a nice upwards trajectory and exercise and wait, in which case you may end up paying only capital gains and in some cases depending on where you are might end up paying reduced capital gains rates on the growth from your exercised onwards). The difference between a good and bad options plan can easily be 50%+ tax (e.g. UK, if you're careless you might pay 53.8% - top rate income tax + national insurance + employers national insurance contributions, vs. 10% if your company qualifies for certain incentive schemes for startups and the options plan is structured right..)

It might seem great to have a really low strike price, but if you expect to be in it for the long haul and might contemplate exercising options before you're ready to sell your shares, talk to a tax lawyer before agreeing to options terms.
This were precisely my first thoughts about the overhaul. But you'd have to agree that the newer layout definitely looks refreshing on all platforms except at Google where people took some time to come to terms with the changes.
Nice uptime :-D Couldn't possibly get that with my cheap VPS. Would go down every 60-80 days.
Thanks, I was thinking the same but there is such a wealth of information here that I figured it was worth the ask.

Thanks for the links, i'll be sure to check them out.
...is there any place one can find a list of companies/projects using CL and specifically what they do with it? ..or of open source projects using CL? (or do people still treat it as "our secret sauce")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing
The idea is nice. It shouldn't tell "things you'll never own" for the Lamborghini Aventador.
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To push their ads. These articles are perfect for sites like these and sites like LifeHacker probably make a tidy sum of money from the Reddit/HN and previously Digg crowd.
This was my favourite Podcast so far. A few things I really took away from it ( which I'll be implementing in my own freelancing /consulting business ) in no particular order

1. Charge more.....

2. Sell yourself as someone who solves business problems, not as someone who implements technical solutions

3. http://thunderboltlabs.com/ - An excellent example of how to sell yourself as a developer, without selling yourself as a commodity coder. Their hourly rate does makes my brain melt.

4. Learn the language of yours customers. This is something I've really got to work on, I have now idea how business people speak.

5. When you're teaching a potential customer new things in your sales pitch you've already won the sale.

I'm not sure I've summarised number five very well. So here's an example from my own limited experience. When I've stepped into a design agency who's looking for a developer and I start talking about version control, the latest technologies, previous projects and how I could make their business better I've actually felt the atmosphere change in the room. At that point I know I'm walking out of there with a new client.

There's more hidden gems in this Podcast and I'm sure I'll be reading / listening to it again before the days out.

So much to learn.... being self employed is awesome.
Already discussed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628594
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I think you're simplifying. It's easy to follow an online tutorial; but if that is what a consultant is doing then he is a very low quality consultant.

Conversely; I have an engineering background but found it very easy to pick up the basics of good business, at least how it applies to consultancy. Of course, I'm not trained in economics, but I figured out enough to get by (you could make an argument business sense isn't really related to economics - some wildly successful businessmen have never been educated in even the basics, they just saw and opening and sold).

What you seem to be suggesting is that an econ/business person could buy a programming 101 book and start making big bucks as a consultant software engineer. In theory I'd like to say that's rubbish, in practice I know of several people who do this.

Can't condone it though: the underlying drive for a consultant should always be - "I have a valuable skill, here is what it is worth"
Honestly, I don't know why. Is it for stability reasons?
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Interesting that one of the responders advises the asker to leave the question open to garner stronger responses - in stark contrast to SO where quick turnaround (by both parties) is strongly encouraged. Different models for different communities.
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The point of 401k is that you compound the growth on the deferred tax money, and then pay much less /present value/ tax once you retire.
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How do you charge if onsite presence is required for an engagement? This could either be due to a client requirement or you need to do interviews with developers for an architecture/code review. Should you add a separate line item for travel + lodging expenses or just bundle it together with the consulting rate? I feel like you're at a disadvantage if the client can see that you're more expensive compared to local talent because of the added travel expense, especially if you're coming into a place with plenty of competition, such as the valley.
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It's irrelevant whether the stock was bought directly from Zynga or otherwise. It's the same stock and gives you the same rights.

However, unless you have a sizable percentage of the shares, management won't give a damn about what you think.
Good timing with this thread. My attempt is with making iOS games. Trying to mix pleasure and profit. First attempt is http://clumsyandthestars.com/. Working on a second one now...
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my problem with this is, with space at a premium, i currently use the underside of my bed to store linen, towels, clothes, etc etc etc.....
Not working on ipad or Galaxy Nexus either.
There's an LTS Firefox version these days: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

(I believe Debian is now basing the iceweasel browser in Debian stable/testing on this release.)
I was going to reply privately, but could find no contact details. I see you espouse HN Notify, so I'm hoping you'll see this response.

My duplicate detector found the initial pair almost immediately. I did nothing, because there was no discussion, so I didn't know which one to point to. Then the third came. Still no discussion. I watched in considerable dismay as a submission that I thought was absolutely excellent, and deserving of significant discussion, sank without trace.

Was it just unlucky? Did no one read it? There were a few desultory upvotes - a few had read it. But was I so completely wrong about what HN would find interesting?

I couldn't believe it, so I submitted it again over a month later. Still no upvotes, still no discussion. It seemed I was wrong about the audience here.

And now I can see that I was right about HN being interested in deeply technical issues like this, and I'm happy. I'm less happy that a brilliant item like this took four submissions, sorry, five submissions before it got noticed.

That's why now I generally try to point out duplicates in two circumstances. One is when they come close together, and that's to help stop a split discussion. The other is when there was a significant discussion on an earlier occasion, and I want people to benefit from previous comments.

So no, I don't think it's a case of glass houses.
I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of that logo, there are some nice ideas on dribbble http://dribbble.com/search?page=1&q=ebay
When your income increases your spending increases, more like you get tempted to spend money buying things and that temptation then turns in an habit. Then what happens is law of diminishing utility kicks in. You just get used to things and it becomes a norm in your life.

After this if your income tanks, it hurts hard.

You can very well travel by bus for 20 years of your life, travel a day by car and it will make you feel awesome. Then travel 10 years by car, it just feels normal. Then when you go through a difficult financial, which forces you to take a bus again- This time you will feel like crap.

People whom you are talking about are addicted to changing phones/tablets twice an year. Buying developer toys because they like it, drink latte every 45 mins just because they can. I can go on and on, but if you sit down and jolt down list of things that we do and spend money on, you will realize We are basically addicted to spending money

We just keep buying things. We are told to not do so means not doing better compared to your peers. We are told living frugal means living like a loser and spending money on fun/experiences/<whatever you call it> is what makes you successful.

Net-Net you end spending a lot more on things you don't at all. And expenses go up real high.

I've seen this among my rich friends as a kid, mysteriously they couldn't even live without things which I didn't even know about.
Title is very misleading - this is not personal bankruptcy, it's one of his shell corporations declaring bankruptcy to avoid a court judgment. In that context, it's a rousing success: he knows how to play the game well enough that he can renege on a $24M obligation and still keep his $80M of personal assets intact.
It's good advice if you are more of a MAKER (developer/engineer/inventor) and less of a MANAGER or LEADER (being a "software architect", "lead developer", or even just having a very complicated personal life that involves taking care of other people and solving other non-autonomous people's problems - like just having a bunch of needy kids - can turn you from a MAKER to a MANAGER even if your "job" is just to brilliantly code stuff up)

I think there's a metric, some kind of sweetspot for (brain capacity e.g. working memory times "power to focus" times mental stability)/(things to manage times how unpredictable and risky the managed things can be), after which you need to use external "crutches for your mind" ...but it's entirely your choice if you choose to live in the zone where you can do everything with your mind or you need to expand beyond it (or you might just have a very chaotic mind to begin with and need the crutches for everything).
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However... At my workplace all managers above my own including CEO resigned over my 3 years tenure there. Most of my colleagues (they do not write any code but are paid quite well too) are new. Talk to me about negative thinking!
I have no pity for them. They'd have to be terminally ignorant not to realize they were building scumware.
I have built http://search-logs.com back in 2006 in a couple of days and ad revenue still lets me work on interesting projects, not worrying about getting a "real" job.
I'm still puzzled as to why they didn't go with a system where the seller and buyer feedback are both secret until both have been set.
Can you tell the name of this startup?